Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judged far too high. Free lance authorities set British monthly plane replacement capacity at 600, professionals say it is closer to 240. They admit, however, that the British production rate is rising. But, while the British may have solved some of their production problems since Munich, the professionals doubt that Royal Air Force expansion will catch up with German replacement capacity...
...rearmament and to slightly better business conditions throughout the world. Unemployment in France increased by 53,000 from October to February. Foxy Paul Reynaud boasted: "That amid the international events of the past few months France has been able to rebuild and increase her forces proves beyond a doubt the robustness of her economic organism, the solidity of her social structure, and the suppleness of her institutions." A more dispassionate judgment was the London Economist's which saw in Paul Reynaud's recovery no vindication of "liberal capitalism" but a drive "towards a war economy," the limitation...
...Doubt as to the value of the program has been expressed in many quarters, and some adverse criticism has been forthcoming even from the Fellows themselves. That the year was of "little value to American newspapers or even to the students" is an overly cynical attitude. There were at least three tangible results. First, the year of study has given some the opportunity to learn a type of reporting often neglected or very poorly done. Thus good reporting of new scientific developments was the aim of one man's study; another dwelt on the difficult field of South American relations...
...present and sigh for the good old days in characteristics of track fans as well as the G. O. P. Bill Bingham, Penn Hallowell, Jack Seborer, Emile Dubiel, Milt Green, Norm Cabbera--these have become legendary figures in the annals of Harvard track. And there is no doubt that spectator interest in Crimson track teams has declined since the days when hundreds of athletes and thousands of fans annually poured into the Stadium to witness the country's college cinder classic--the I. C. 4-A meet...
...increasing specialization of the tutorial staffs is due, no doubt, to the fact that unlike the poles of a magnet, like scholars attract like. A Master who is a professor in the sciences will surround himself with young scientists both students and tutors. And once a dominant field is established in a House by the accumulation of several good tutors in that field, applicants for the Houses flock to that House which offers them the best tutorial instruction in their field. As soon as this academic specialization in a House has become a fact it tends to become almost self...